Many questions pushed Maya Cade to create the Black Film Archive website, a new, curated streaming guide of Black cinema spanning 1915 through 1979: What films belong here? How can I present it in a ...
Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 documentary about life on a German submarine or John Ford's 53-minute Western Bucking Broadway from the following year? Until now ...
Those who want to know who wrote Cooley High or where Shaft In Africa was filmed, can now do so through the Black Film Archive, an online database of Black films. “I have always leaned on Black cinema ...
Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...
If you saw the most recent incarnation of “Candyman” from director Nia DaCosta — all of it shot in Chicago, some of which takes place amid the remaining Cabrini row houses — you might be compelled to ...
The custodian of thousands of negatives from the Movie Star News archive, Globe Photos provides framed images of famous 20th-century films and stars, from "King Kong" to Marlon Brando. Still from King ...
A still from Mou Tun-Fei's 1970 film "The End of the Track." (Courtesy Harvard Film Archive) The Harvard Film Archive has been closed to the public since March of 2020. In keeping with the ...
How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.
Though they go by different names, almost every major streaming service has some type of “Black film” collection, often promoted during the month of February or, during 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...